Church & Market Power Outage Shuts Down Church Muni Station, Traffic Lights, More [Updating]

A pair of power outages hit Duboce Triangle at Church, 14th and Market streets this afternoon, knocking out power at the Church Muni station and at several local businesses.

According to PG&E, the first outage occurred at 1:47pm this afternoon, followed by a second one at 2:16pm. Power is expected to be back at 4:15pm at the first outage site, and at 5pm for the second one. In all, 15 customers are affected, and PG&E is already on the scene.

According to an employee at Church Street's Golden Produce, which lost power in the incident, something "blew up" at the construction site that housed the recently demolished Home Restaurant, but a rep for PG&E was unable to confirm that, or to provide an alternative cause for the incident.

Inbound and outbound trains are not stopping at Church station right now:

A photo from inside Church station, where the power has gone out.

ATTN: Due to a power outage at Church Station, IB & OB #subwaysvc will not be stopping at Church Station.

Update, 4:23pm: PG&E spokesperson Andrea Menniti has confirmed that the power outage started at 2:45pm. A third-party contractor damaged underground electrical equipment at Market and Church as they were digging there.

A total of 6,258 customers were out of power after the incident, but the majority were restored at 3:20pm, Menniti said. 46 customers remain without power, and PG&E is still on the scene.